Briefings

Committee
appointed to help in search for Dearborn chancellor

A 15-member
Search Advisory Committee for the Chancellor of the University of
Michigan-Dearborn has been appointed by President Lee C. Bollinger to help
him conduct a national search for a successor to James Renick.

The
committee is chaired by Sidney Bolkosky, the William E. Stirton Professor
of History. Other members are:

Gary D. Krenz, special counsel to the
president, will be liaison to the Office of the President. Adele J.
Henry, secretary to the chancellor, will provide staff
support.

LS&A faculty meetings and events scheduled

The
first LS&A faculty meeting will take place at 4:10 p.m. Sept. 13 in
Auditorium B, Angell Hall. Department chairs will introduce new faculty
members.

A reception to welcome Dean Shirley Neuman and new LS&A
faculty members will be held 3:305 p.m. Sept. 10 at the Museum of
Art.

The following dates also have been reserved for the 199900
monthly LS&A faculty meetings: Oct. 4, Nov. 1, Dec. 6, Jan. 10, Feb. 7,
March 6 and April 3. All meetings will start at 4:10 p.m. in Auditorium
B, Angell Hall.

SSNs no longer on Mcards

Starting Sept.
15, social security numbers (SSNs) will no longer be included on newly
issued student ID cards (Mcards). Students with cards issued before Sept.
15 who wish cards without the number may get a replacement card for $15,
starting Sept. 15. For more information, call the Mcard Center, 936-2273,
or send e-mail to mcard@umich.edu.m

Fun Run
kicks off school year

The Third Annual Fun Run with President Lee
C. Bollinger will begin at 8 a.m. Sept. 10 at the Washington Heights
entrance to the Nichols Arboretum. Walkers and runners can register for
the free 5-K event at the Burnham House beginning at 7 a.m. that day.
Many early registrants will receive commemorative T-shirts.

Runners
and walkers of all skill levels may participate. Along the course,
participants will experience some modest hills and uneven footing.
Water, juice and bagels will be available after the run.

Due to
limited parking, participants are encouraged to use campus transportation
or walk to Burnham House. From North Campus, take the Commuter Southbound
bus to the Taubman Center stop or Mott lot on East Medical Center Drive.
From Central Campus, ride the Commuter Northbound to Stockwell Hall or the
stop near the Simpson Building. Buses run every 10 minutes. Visit the
Web, www.transportation.umich.edu, for commuter bus
routes.

Admissions lawsuits trial dates
delayed

Starting dates of the trials in the two cases involving U-M
admissions practices have been delayed until next summer following a
status conference with the judges on Aug. 26.

The suit against LS&A
was scheduled to start some time in September/October and the case against
the Law School was set for trial on Aug. 30. The LS&A case now will start
in July/August 2000, the Law School case Aug. 28, 2000.

The delays
follow an Aug. 10 ruling by the sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
Cincinnati that will allow two groups of intervenors and their attorneys
time to become familiar with the cases and gather information from the
other parties.

The intervenors in the undergraduate admissions case
include 17 African American or Hispanic students who applied or planned to
apply to the U-M and the group Citizens for Affirmative Action
Preservation.

The Law School case intervenors include 41 students and
three pro-affirmative action coalitionsUnited for Equality and
Affirmative Action, the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action By Any
Means Necessary and Law Students for Affirmative Action.

The lawsuits
were filed in October 1997 by the Center for Individual Rights, a
Washington, D.C.-based, public interest law group.

Paul Appelbaum, a psychiatrist and expert
on legal issues in medical practice, will present the Fourth Annual
Raymond W. Waggoner Lecture on Ethics and Values in Medicine at 4 p.m.
Sept. 15 in the Maternal and Child Health Center Auditorium. His free,
public lecture, No Place to Hide: Threats to Confidentiality and
Privacy in Medicine, is sponsored by the Department of
Psychiatry.

Author of many articles and several books on law and
clinical practice, Appelbaum chairs the Psychiatry Department and is
director of the Law and Psychiatry Program at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. He is the current vice president of the
American Psychiatric Association (APA) and a recipient of the APAs
Isaac Ray Award for outstanding contributions to forensic psychiatry
and the psychiatric aspects of jurisprudence. His research
interests include informed consent, confidentiality, and ethics in medical
and psychiatric practice.

The Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and
Values in Medicine brings a national or international expert to the U-M to
explore cutting-edge issues related to ethics and value in medicine. The
lectureship honors Prof. Emeritus Raymond W. Waggoner, past chair of the
department. The program is supported by an endowed fund created through
the generosity of alumni and friends of Waggoner and the Department of
Psychiatry.

Turn in reimbursement account claims

To
ensure reimbursement in a September paycheck, Health Care and/or Dependent
Care Reimbursement Account claims must be turned in by Sept. 15 if paid
bi-weekly, Sept. 20 if paid on a monthly basis. Claims may be dropped off
or mailed to the Benefits Office, Wolverine Tower-Low Rise G405, 3003
South State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1278. Claims are considered within
the deadline based on the date they are received in the Benefits
Office.

Forms and a list of due dates are available in the
Reimbursement Accounts Claims Kit or on the Benefits Office Web site, www.umich.edu/~benefits/. For more information,
contact any Benefits Office: Central Campus, 763-1214; Medical Campus,
764-6584; Flint Campus, (810) 766-6845; Dearborn Campus, (313)
593-5192.

Dental ID cards distributed

The Benefits Office
recently mailed dental identification cards to the nearly 31,000 faculty
and staff members who participate in the U-M Dental plan. There are
separate ID cards for Option I, Option II and Option III participants.

Plan participants should sign the card, fill in their social security
number and take the card with them when they go to the dentist. Most
dentists need the information contained on the card. For more
information, contact the Benefits Office, 763-1214.

Open
Enrollment set for October, November

Oct. 1129Open
Enrollment

Faculty and staff can call the Benefits Enrollment Line
(BEL) 7:30 a.m.11:30 p.m. seven days a week Oct. 1129 and
record benefits plan changes for 2000. BEL will close at 4:30 p.m. Oct.
29. To use BEL: From the Ann Arbor area, call 763-0425; from elsewhere
in the United States, call (800) 236-1492.

The first Confirmation Statement reflects changes made during
Open Enrollment. These should be reviewed for accuracy.

Nov.
824Adjustment period

If Confirmation Statements do not
reflect the changes, call and make corrections during the Adjustment
Period. The phone lines are open 7:30 a.m.11:30 p.m., seven days a
week. BEL closes at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 24.

Dec. 3, 1999Final
Confirmation Statements mailed

If changes are made during the
Adjustment Period, a final Confirmation Statement will be sent. If
statements are not correct, contact the Benefits Office immediately.

January 1, 2000Effective date of changes

Any changes made
to benefits during Open Enrollment are effective Jan. 1,
2000.

U-M retirees to meet

The first U-M Retirees
Association (UMRA) meeting of the school year will take place 35
p.m. Sept. 16 in Suite 18, Wolverine Tower. Barbara Zaret, coordinator of
Medicare/Medicaid at Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County, will be
the featured speaker. She will provide an update on problems facing
Medicare participants. Guests are welcome to attend.

The UMRA Annual
Meeting will be held Oct. 14 at Wolverine Tower. For more information,
call Charlene King, 764-9291.

Additions made to Y2K
site

The U-Ms Y2K Web site now includes links to popular
software and hardware vendors, as well as information on personal finance,
travel, home safety and a variety of other topics. The site, www.year2000.umich.edu/individual.html, offers
resources to help with frequently asked Y2K questions.

Join a
vanpool

Two openings are available in a vanpool between Jackson and
University Hospital. The van leaves Jackson Crossing between 6:15 and
6:20 a.m. It begins to pick up riders at designated stops at 4:15 p.m.,
departing Ann Arbor by 4:30 p.m. Interested individuals should contact
Cindy Hendrickson, 936-8198.

Search for Music School dean
begins

An advisory committee has been appointed by Provost Nancy
Cantor to assist the president and the provost in the search for a new
dean of the School of Music. She will ask the group to conduct a national
search, with the intention of creating an unranked slate of final
candidates next spring. Paul C. Boylan will retire next June after 20
years in the post. He joined the U-M in 1962.

The School of
Music has many programmatic and creative activities under way,
Cantor said, and I anticipate the selection of a new dean who will
continue the fine leadership that Paul Boylan has provided.

The 16-member committee will be chaired by George I. Shirley, the Joseph
Edgar Maddy Distinguished University Professor of Music. Other members
are:

William E. Bolcom, the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University
Professor of Music and chair, composition; Evan K. Chambers, assistant
professor of music (composition) and director, Electronic Music Studio;
Richard Crawford, the Glenn McGeoch Collegiate Professor of Music; Glenda
Dickerson, associate dean, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies,
and professor of theater and drama; Julie Ellison, professor of English
and director, Imagining America; Gabriela Lena Frank, graduate student,
School of Music; Arthur Greene, professor of music (piano);

Gretchen
N. Jackson, director of development and external relations, School of
Music; Paul M. Kantor, professor of music (violin) and chair, string
instruments; Andrew W. Mead, professor of music (theory) and chair, music
theory; Christopher Peck, undergraduate student, School of Music; H.
Robert Reynolds, director of University bands and professor of music
(conducting); Ellen H. Rowe, associate professor of music (jazz studies);
Donald J. Sinta, the Earl V. Moore Professor of Music and chair, wind
instruments; and Peter D. Sparling, professor of dance.

LIR
offers Russia lecture series

The Learning in Retirement (LIR)
program of the Geriatrics Center will begin a weekly lecture series titled
RussiaA Country of Contrasts on Sept. 8. The first
lecture will be presented by Walter Moss, professor of history at Eastern
Michigan University, on Russia under Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Each lecture is 1011:30 a.m. in the Kellogg Eye Center Auditorium,
1000 Wall St. Other lectures in the series include: Legal Reforms
in Russia, Sept. 16; Russian Music, Sept. 23; Life
on the Moscow Metro, Sept. 30; Art & Architecture in Modern
Russia, Oct. 6; and The Economic Disaster in Russia: What Went
Wrong? Oct. 14.

The lectures are open to everyone over 55
years of age. The charge for the series is $25 per person for LIR
members. Membership is $5. For more information, call
998-9353.

UROP seeks faculty research partners

The
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) is recruiting faculty
researchers from all departments for the 199900 academic year.
Students in the UROP program assist faculty members with research projects
by, for example, coding data, conducting library research or performing
lab experiments.

UROP targets first- and second-year students,
especially women in science and historically underrepresented minority
students. Students who participate in the program receive either academic
credit or Work Study funds, which are covered by UROP. Limited
supplementary research funds also are available for faculty.

For an
application or more information, call 998-9381 or visit the Web, www.umich.edu/~urop. The application deadline is
Sept. 10.

Turner offers therapy group

The Turner
Geriatric Clinic has announced a new therapy group for adults 60 years of
age and older who are experiencing feelings of depression or anxiety.
New Ways to Feel Good will meet for 10 weeks and focus on
cognitive therapy techniques. For more information, call Janet Fogler or
Sally Edwards, 764-2556. Group leaders will begin to interview interested
individuals today (Sept. 7).

Fellowship applications
available

Faculty Fellowship application packets were recently
distributed to many departments by the Institute for the Humanities. The
applications are for the 20002001 academic year, and all tenured or
tenure-track faculty members in Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn.

Faculty may apply individually or as part of a two- or three-person
research team. In team applications, co-applicants must each represent a
different discipline, supporting the Institutes mission of
encouraging interdisciplinary, collaborative work.

A show featuring 58
slides of campus scenes, new and renovated buildings, student life and
facts about the University is available in a traditional format or as a
PowerPoint presentation. The show highlights the work of University
photographers Paul Jaronski, Bob Kalmbach and Bill Wood.

The slides
are intended for use in classroom lectures, presentations or displays and
are suitable for a range of audiences, including prospective students and
parents, alumni and donors.

The slide show includes a script with
background information about the subject of each slide and costs $150, to
cover duplication expenses. For more information, contact the Office of
the Vice President for Communications, 763-5800. To preview the slides,
visit www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/SS/sshome.html.

Workshops offered on searching electronic resources

The
Health Sciences Libraries have designed six fall workshops for faculty,
staff and students on searching electronic information resources.

The Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies is
accepting applications for its 1999 Faculty Research Grants and
Fellowships program. Faculty members may apply for both a grant and/or a
fellowship to be used at the same time. The total amount for both may not
exceed $15,000.

The program is designed to help junior faculty
establish an active research and scholarship program. Consideration also
is given to senior faculty entering a new line of inquiry. The
application deadline is Oct. 11. For more information or applications and
guidelines, visit the Web at www.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/Fgf.html; contact the
Graduate School, Room 1004, Rackham Bldg., 936-1647; or send e-mail to kijewski@umich.edu.;

FDA
official to discuss nicotine investigation

The U-M Tobacco Research
Network (UMTRN) is sponsoring a lecture by Mitchell Zeller, director of
the Food and Drug Administrations Tobacco Program, titled The
FDA Nicotine Investigation: Why a Cigarette Is More Like a Syringe Than
You Might Think. The lecture will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sept.
13 in Room M3040, School of Public Health I. For more information,
contact Jennifer Cash, jenncash@umich.edu.;

Duct
tape will do the honors

The dedication of the new Walter E. Wilson
Student Team Project Center at the College of Engineering will take place
at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 9, with duct tape serving as the ceremonial ribbon.

The 10,000-square-foot facility has been remodeled for use by teams in
engineering competitions such as the solar car, solar boat, various
alternative-fuel and high-performance race cars and human-powered
helicopters and submarines. Several of these projects will be featured at
the dedication.

President Lee C. Bollinger and Stephen Director, the
Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, will speak at the ceremony. Tours
of the facility will begin at 3:30 p.m. The Wilson Center is located on
North Campus at 2603 Draper, immediately east of the Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Aerospace Bldg. and adjacent to Maya Lins The
Wavefield. For more information, call 647-7000.

Merajver
to discuss national breast cancer study

Sofia Merajver, assistant
professor of internal medicine and director of the Breast and Ovarian
Evaluation Program at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, will present two
educational sessions on the Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR).
Merajver will focus on breast cancer, cancer prevention strategies, risk
vs benefits of study participation, study qualifications, enrollment
procedures and follow-up during participation. Participants must be
postmenopausal and cannot have a history of invasive breast cancer.

The sessions will be held 1011:30 a.m. Sept. 10 and 78:30 p.m.
Sept. 15 at the Cancer Center Bldg., Room B1180. For more
information, call (800) 742-2300, category 7879.

Turner hosts
LIR open house

The Learning in Retirement (LIR) program of the
Geriatrics Center will have an Open House at 2 p.m. Sept. 22 in Suite C,
Turner Senior Resource Center, 2401 Plymouth Road.

Individuals
interested in LIR courses and study groups are invited to attend. For
more information, call 998-9353.